Tahini Molasses invites us on a sonic journey where rituals, transness and tradition are intertwined. A queer portal experience that will take you away and make you oscillate between these worlds. Music by: Hijac and Tahini Molasses

Summers in Cyprus by Kris Adem satermarks/ a handshake by Seta Astreou-Karides TRIPPIN’ AIYA NAPA, INNIT?! by Emiddio Vasquez (Curated by Dimitris Chimonas) Three short film commissions centred around Viktor Szeri’s performance “fatigue”. An informal roundtable discussion with the artists will follow the screenings.

In collaboration with the AIDS Solidarity Movement – Cy Checkpoint, we are setting up a 3-hour walk-in clinic at NiMAC from 12:00 to 15:00 on Sunday 22 September. Queer Wave audiences and the general public are welcome to drop in anytime for HIV/Syphilis testing without any prior booking.

The film is based on Zak’s experience living with HIV, shared thourgh an interview with the director.

Archives are usually considered as ‘objective’ collections of traces of the past, where they are grouped and contextualised together in order to generate meaning. Yet that meaning is not inherent within the material, but shaped through how the archive is organised, governed and disseminated.

During the workshop, Zuza will talk about their process of embodying archives, looking for affective and visceral ways of organising knowledge, and searching for new meanings within existing materials.

The workshop will include a special screening of this year’s winner of the Teddy Award for Best Short, Grandmamauntsistercat.

Cinema holds the unique position of always remaining contemporary, of being perpetually out of, and of its, time. A film never truly becomes history, it is never truly resigned to the past.

Every time it’s screened, every time someone is influenced by it, it becomes contemporary once again. This introduction will challenge the rigid concept of the film canon and invite the viewer to (re)discover The Blood of a Poet through a contemporary, queer lens. It will suggest approaching Jean Cocteau’s early film and his subsequent works through the spectrum of plurality, rejecting any form of labelling or binarism.

The introduction will be followed by a screening of The Blood of A Poet (1932).

How difficult or easy is it to make an out & proud film in Greece today? Are there sources of funding? Screening rooms? An audience?

A conversation with Zacharias Mavroeidis, director of the queer comedy The Summer With Carmen about the film’s journey from writing the script to distribution in cinemas and platforms in Greece and internationally.

Trash Your Gender: the 9 ¾ glitchversary

One of the earliest queer events of the island, Trash Your Gender is a political laboratory to experiment with gender expression. Its glitchy existence has flickered across time, a cocoon that nurtured a therapeutic deconstruction of the daily self. Unfolding, it is now a shimmer imbued with age.

Credits:
Organisation:
Anastasia Demetriou – Co-Organiser Alexandros Efstathiou – Co-Organiser Aycan Garip – Co-Organiser Pedro Siammas – Social Architect & Co-Organiser

Performers:
Labronna Saskapsi 🌸 Mitote Garose 🌹

DJs have no identity during Trash Your Gender but we like to be cute:
Dominatrix Lestrange 🌙 Kuya Yakovlev

The Neurotic Archive is a series of homoerotic drawings derived from pornographic and erotic content sourced online. Consisting of a collection of more than 300 drawings, it is a testament of a voyeuristic exploration of homosexuality, an artistic gesture of navigating forms of eroticism oscillating between the suggestively erotic and the explicitly sexual. As an almost exclusively online endeavour, The Neurotic Archive dips its toes for the second time into the physical realm of public display in conjunction with the 5th edition of Queer Wave. The latest series of drawings, treated as scandalous explicit adult content, is tucked away in a discreet room on the premises of NiMAC. Their presence and placement in the architecture of the festival grounds ponders the value of the public display of audiovisual arts drawn from erotic and pornographic content.

Queer Wave this year also returns with a selection of soft pornographic and erotic works, this time curated in collaboration with Satyrs and Maenads: the Athens Porn Film Festival. After the screening on Friday 27 Sep at 19:00, Shorts VI: Spiritual Cravings of the Flesh, a Q&A will follow with the artistic director of the Athens PFF Menelas Siafakas. The conversation will start from the definition of porn and ask what is gained by sharing it in public – as opposed to indulging in it in private.

The works in the Neurotic Archive, derived from audiovisual porn and erotica, will create a space where these questions can be visited and revisited, before and after this screening, throughout the festival’s 10 days.